Jelly Roll \u201chad multiple heart issues\u201d before embarking on his weight-loss journey, and he now feels much healthier, having lost nearly 90kg (200 pounds) since 2022.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt felt like I\u2019d already cheated the game. I\u2019d had multiple heart issues. I was like, man, I should really start trying to figure this out. I could feel myself dying, Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The singer previously revealed that he dreams of appearing on the front cover of Men\u2019s Health magazine.<\/p>\n
He said on the Dumb Blonde Podcast: \u201cI wanna be on the cover of Men\u2019s Health by March of 2026. That\u2019s my new goal. I wanna have one of the biggest transformations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jelly Roll \u2013 whose real name is Jason DeFord \u2013 also suggested that his weight had become an important part of his identity.<\/p>\n
He shared: \u201cI think that people who become as big as I became, when they lose the weight, they\u2019re kind of ashamed. They\u2019re so ashamed that they go hide and lose the weight, and then they come back out and they don\u2019t really know how to interact with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this, Jelly Roll stressed that he\u2019s become successful in spite of his weight \u2013 rather than because of it.<\/p>\n
The chart-topping star \u2013 who has struggled with obesity throughout his life \u2013 explained: \u201cWhat I want the world to know, and I want people to see … is that I didn\u2019t become successful because of my weight. I became successful in spite of it. I somehow managed to be this successful carrying 550 pounds (249kg). That\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll \u201chad multiple heart issues\u201d before embarking on his weight-loss journey, and he now feels much healthier,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115056,9218,124,42834,115057,156,4522,692,8241,86742,2203,2225,33325,111,139,69,1517,36097,18216,46960],"class_list":["post-181016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-90kg","tag-before","tag-could","tag-dying","tag-embarking","tag-entertainment","tag-feel","tag-he","tag-himself","tag-jelly","tag-journey","tag-loss","tag-myself","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reveals","tag-roll","tag-weight","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}